EbayesThresh

1.4-12

Empirical Bayes Thresholding and Related Methods

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608.7Kdownloads / year

43.9%test coverage

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Overview

About

Maintained by Peter CarbonettoFirst published 2005-03-265 releasesCRAN page ↗GitHub ↗

Empirical Bayes thresholding using the methods developed by I. M. Johnstone and B. W. Silverman. The basic problem is to estimate a mean vector given a vector of observations of the mean vector plus white noise, taking advantage of possible sparsity in the mean vector. Within a Bayesian formulation, the elements of the mean vector are modelled as having, independently, a distribution that is a mixture of an atom of probability at zero and a suitable heavy-tailed distribution. The mixing parameter can be estimated by a marginal maximum likelihood approach. This leads to an adaptive thresholding approach on the original data. Extensions of the basic method, in particular to wavelet thresholding, are also implemented within the package.

Install

R (CRAN)pak (dev)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("EbayesThresh", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

if (!requireNamespace("pak", quietly = TRUE))
  install.packages("pak", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")
pak::pak("stephenslab/EbayesThresh")

Development version from stephenslab/EbayesThresh. Installs pak first if it is not already available.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-ebayesthresh

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-EbayesThresh

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

13OK

Slowest check: 2.7 min · r-oldrel-windows-x86_64

Code health

Yes

Tests · ratio 0.18

43.9%

Coverage · measured lines

100%

Documentation · exports

Dependencies · direct

Check history

OK2026-03-10
14 OK · 0 NOTE · 0 WARNING · 0 ERROR · 0 FAILURE

Documentation

READMENoVignettesYes · dynamicpkgdown siteNoNEWSNoCode of conductNoContributing guideNo

Examples that run: 100%
Documented parameters: 98%
Return-value docs: 94%
References docs: 100%

Downloads

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Repository

GitHub ↗ stephenslab/ebayesthresh

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9Contributors

License GPL-3.0 · 126 commits · Last activity 2017-12-18

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Repository practices

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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

6 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (2)

statswavethresh

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (5)

testthat knitr rmarkdown dplyr ggplot2

Enhances (0)

none

Dependency license breakdown →

Reverse dependencies

8direct

7indirect

CVThresh GSD adlift binhf nlt POCRE icmm smashr

Code & Tests

People & History

People (5)

Maintainer (1)

Peter Carbonetto

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4-12

Authors (5)

Peter Carbonetto

Author, Maintainer · added in 1.4-12

Ludger Evers

Author · added in 1.4-12

Bernard W. Silverman

Author · added in 1.3.0

Matthew Stephens

Author · added in 1.4-12

Kan Xu

Author · added in 1.4-12

Listed in earlier versions (1)

Bernard Silverman (with major intellectual input from Iain Johnstone)

no longer listed · 1.02

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Package metadata

First published: 2005-03-26
Total releases: 5 / 21 yrs
License: GPL (>= 2) OSI
Download size: 692 KB
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